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Faculty and Staff

Our greatest asset is our faculty.

All members of the art and design department are active and involved artists, art historians, designers or art educators. They have received significant awards and recognition for their creative and scholarly work.

Most importantly, they share a commitment to individualized instruction, thoughtful advisement and personalized attention. In upper-level classes, the student-teacher ratio is generally around 15:1.

Research and professional interests: Art history. Ancient cultures of the Americas, Mesoamerican art and archaeology, Ancient Mesoamerican Gulf Coast cultures (Olmec), textiles in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, sex and gender in art